Absolute Software Survey Results Sample

As the amount of information stored digitally on company servers, stationary computers and mobile devices such as laptops continues to escalate, protecting that information from public data breach is becoming a priority for IT and compliance departments.

In September 2007, market research firm Research Concepts surveyed 185 IT professionals from Network World Magazine’s Technology Opinion Panel about the state of computer and data security in their organizations. The survey probed attitudes toward the prevention of data breach, current prevention measures employed by IT departments and the perceived effectiveness of those methods.

Regulatory Compliance
State-level data breach notification legislation has fueled a shift in the way organizations view the security of sensitive information such as customer social security numbers, electronically protected health data, and other personally identifying information. No corporate department is more closely tied to the protection of this data than IT. For example, the theft of laptop computers managed by IT is responsible for nearly 50% of all data breaches.*